Bob Griffin Biography
Bob Griffin (Robert Madison Griffin) an American journalist from Fort Smith, Arkansas Louisiana as of now working as a radio and television broadcaster for KTBS-TV.
Bob Griffin Age
Griffin was born on August 8, 1934, in Fort Smith, Arkansas Louisiana, USA. He celebrates her birthday on August 8 yearly.
Bob Griffin Career
Griffin currently serves as a radio and television journalist with more than fifty years of experience in broadcasting in his adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana. He previously worked for a film company in St. Louis, Missouri, and later featured in an off-Broadway show in New York City. griffin joined KSLA, the CBS affiliate established seven years earlier in 1954 as the first television station in Shreveport.
He as well hosted the short-lived What’s News? weekend quiz program for high school students, based on current events with questions taken at KSLA news and sports broadcasts of the preceding week. He as well served as principally the sports editor at KSLA and later acquainted with scores of area athletes, some of whom reached national prominence.
He worked along with major colleagues included Don Owen, a native of Oklahoma as news anchor from 1954 to 1984, mand Al Bolton, a native of Alexandria, Louisiana, and the chief meteorologist from 1954 to 1991.
He as well airedsports twice daily five days a week and the weather five nights a week. He also covered the leading high school games on Friday nights as well as pertinent college and professional teams.
Griffin helps Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator in the promotion of the department’s “Safety Town” located between Walker Road and Jewella Avenue near the South Park Summer Grove Baptist Church. The organization was launched to teach children how to avoid danger and to protect their own safety. Griffin handled sports twice daily five days a week and the weather five nights a week. He covered the leading high school games on Friday nights as well as pertinent college and professional teams.
Bob Griffin Honors
- 2000, “Sportsman of the Year, Independence Bowl Foundation
- 2004, “Mr. Shreveport”, from the local Optimist Club
- 2005, induction into the Centenary College Sports Hall of Fame
- 2005, “Louisiana Sportscaster of the Year” by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association
- 2009, “Distinguished Service Award” from the Louisiana Sportswriters Association at the annual Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet in Natchitoches. Griffin shared the honor with Orville K. “Buddy” Davis, long-time sports editor of the Ruston Daily Leader in Ruston, Louisiana.
- 2011, Five Living Legends of Shreveport, Danny Fox (1954-2014) of KWKH radio.
- Fox named Griffin as one of the Top 5 “Living Legends” of Shreveport, along with James Burton and Hank Williams, Jr. Two others honored, Frank Page and Claude King, died in 2013.
Bob Griffin Personal Life
Bob has not shared information about his family with the public. We will update this section as soon as he shares it out.
Bob Griffin Wife
Griffin is married to the former Robbie Denise Clingan. Together they are blessed with twin daughters and ten grandchildren who are Sunday school directors at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in Shreveport, where Mrs. Griffin is on the staff as the children’s director.
Bob Griffin Education
Griffin enrolled at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the University of Nebraska in the capital city of Lincoln, Nebraska.